TOKYO/BEIJING – Japan’s foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, who met his Chinese counterpart on Sunday, has urged Beijing to promptly release a detained Japanese national.

Mr Hayashi’s meeting with Mr Qin Gang was the first visit to Beijing by a Japanese foreign minister in over three years, as the two rival Asian powers seek common ground amid rising regional tension.…

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